Posts Tagged ‘Jordan’

Mapping, GPS and Navigation devices are a very useful tool for any person, while the west and USA in general has more advanced solutions in this area than what is available in the Arab world. There has been local and International attempts to solve this issue.
On the web, google has done a good job in few Arab countries namely Dubai but its awe...

Leadership Formation, a Jordanian firm focused on strategy and transformation through consulting and training offerings, is organizing the first Organizational Success & Excellence Executive Forum to be held on December 9, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel Amman, Jordan.
The Forum in which ArabCrunch is a media partner in, will be a unique opportun...

Ciapple a Jordanian startup artificial intelligence software for customer relationship management startup funded by the European Commission-SRTD program represented by its Founder and General Manager Eng. Hussein Al-Natsheh, has recently won the 3rd place award in a regional business plan competition“MENA 100” .
The final stage took place i...

Abraaj Capital Group announced today that it agreed to acquire all of Riyada Ventures the leading venture capital firm in the MENA region. The acquisition is at the core of a major new push by Abraaj into the small and medium enterprise (SME) space, which is aimed at stimulating and supporting entrepreneurial activity in this vital segment of t...

Our friends at QRCE along with other partners have organized an entrepreneurship week. The week started this Sunday with interesting speakers including Joi Ito CEO creative common and early investor in Twitter, Reid Hoffman founder and CEO of LinkedIn , Mitchell Baker Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation,, Laith Al-Qaem CEO, Arabian Business Cons...

Creative Commons (CC) the equivalent body to open source software foundations but for content has finally launched its Amman chapter.
The launch was part of CC first Salon in Jordan and in the Arab world which took place Talal Abu Ghazaleh business Forum.
The forum also focused on how CC could be applied to business, artistic, entrepreneurial a...

ArabCrunch Broke at the global level that Yahoo Acquired Maktoob, today it was announced that the deal was completed on Thursday noon.
Yahoo's acquisition of Jordan based Maktoob is the first major investment by a US tech company in the Arab region.
As we said before this is a game changer to the startups and the tech scene in the region, a...

Thanks to God, after a long wait, with an excuse or no excuse and in compliance with the popular demand, your blog AC announces today the launch of "ArabCrunch Arabic Edition which will be the first Arabic blog that focus on tech startups, entrepreneurship, social media and mobile news and views and is based on citizen journalism. Citizen Journalis...

Among what we do at ArabCrunch is profile Arab startups and technology companies and review them. As we said before ArabCrunch mission is to help entrepreneurs and help drive technology innovation and entrepreneurship in the Arab region while maintaining an objective coverage. Though most of the startups that we covered until now where from the In...

Jordan based Wizrads Productions was founded by serial entrepreneur and ex-maktoobian Sohaib Thiab along with Hussam Hammo, Afif Toukan and Omar Turk and was angel funded by 3 friends of Sohaib. The startup which specializes in Arabic online multiplayer games, started with the hit game Arabain Hitman in March 2009 that achieved today around 94,400...